EMC Announces Major Updates to Their SDS Platform – ViPR 2.0

In another of their announcements on the first day of EMC World, EMC announced a series of major updates and new features for their software-defined storage (SDS) platform, ViPR. The new updates will be in ViPR 2.0

While storage solutions will always require that hardware be involved, software-defined storage allows the ability to provide storage services without being tied to any specific hardware.

ViPR works by separating the control plane from the data plane. This means ViPR come in two parts, ViPR Controller, and ViPR Services. ViPR 2.0 makes additions on both sides.

ViPR 2.0 adds block-based storage services. These services are enabled by ScaleIO and by the addition of OpenStack support. Initially, at least, these block services are iSCSI only.

Commodity Hardware Support

Version 2.0 adds the first-ever commodity hardware support to ViPR. Initially, the only such hardware supported is the HP Proliant SL4540 Gen8 server, although adding support for other hardware is planned.